Decision-Making Contracts in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 50 87
Rank change year-on-year +7 +37 -22
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 598 744 659
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.59% 3.59% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.06% 4.30% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 428 426
10th Percentile £313 £266 £306
25th Percentile £400 £400 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £515 £515 £549
% change year-on-year +0.10% -6.20% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 108 45
10th Percentile £18.44 £10.95 £14.74
25th Percentile £22.14 £11.87 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £16.06 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.23% -64.31% -
75th Percentile £60.62 £35.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.59 £51.33 £65.45
UK median hourly rate £31.49 £19.38 £43.86
% change year-on-year +62.54% -55.83% -2.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Decision-Making falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,812 17,287 20,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.62% 83.43% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,347 10,277 13,944
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 2,126 1,244
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.41 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.43
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +4 175 £499 -3.20% 557
Midlands +1 106 £408 -4.12% 358
South East -3 98 £501 -9.00% 524
Scotland +14 95 £473 +8.25% 153
North West -11 92 £501 +8.32% 328
West Midlands +2 71 £400 -11.11% 234
South West +7 68 £550 - 217
Yorkshire +38 65 £463 -15.91% 164
East of England +12 39 £563 +7.14% 166
East Midlands +4 33 £420 +55.56% 117
North East +8 16 £550 +3.29% 71
Wales +4 11 £319 +6.20% 60
Northern Ireland -11 6 £625 -2.34% 41
Channel Islands - 1 £463 - 55
Decision-Making
UK

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (5.35%) Confluence
2 23 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.18%) SharePoint
4 13 (2.17%) Apache
5 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.34%) IBM Domino
7 6 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.00%) SAS
8 4 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.50%) CMS
10 2 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.33%) IIS
10 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.17%) JBoss
11 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 53 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (5.18%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (3.51%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.84%) Trello
8 3 (0.50%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.17%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.17%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.17%) MadCap Flare
9 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.17%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.50%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.33%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.17%) Maximo
5 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.17%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.17%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 86 (14.38%) Azure
2 79 (13.21%) AWS
3 66 (11.04%) Power Platform
4 32 (5.35%) GCP
5 25 (4.18%) Amazon S3
6 21 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
7 17 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (2.17%) Snowflake
9 12 (2.01%) SaaS
10 11 (1.84%) OpenShift
11 7 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.17%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.00%) Cohesity
12 6 (1.00%) Entra ID
13 5 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (0.84%) AWS KMS
13 5 (0.84%) Azure AI
13 5 (0.84%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.17%) Firewall
2 9 (1.51%) Network Security
3 8 (1.34%) SAN
4 7 (1.17%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (1.17%) NAS
5 6 (1.00%) VPN
6 5 (0.84%) WAN
7 4 (0.67%) BGP
7 4 (0.67%) DNS
7 4 (0.67%) Internet
7 4 (0.67%) OSPF
8 3 (0.50%) 5G
8 3 (0.50%) DHCP
8 3 (0.50%) MPLS
8 3 (0.50%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.50%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.50%) Wireless
9 2 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (10.37%) Power BI
2 46 (7.69%) Tableau
3 20 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (2.84%) Hadoop
5 15 (2.51%) Big Data
6 14 (2.34%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.84%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (1.34%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.34%) Power Query
10 7 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.17%) Flink
10 7 (1.17%) Metadata
10 7 (1.17%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.00%) Looker
12 5 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.84%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.84%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 66 (11.04%) JIRA
2 27 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.01%) Git
4 16 (2.68%) GitLab
5 11 (1.84%) Selenium
6 10 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 9 (1.51%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.51%) REST Assured
8 7 (1.17%) Maven
9 6 (1.00%) JUnit
10 5 (0.84%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (0.84%) DbUnit
10 5 (0.84%) jMock
10 5 (0.84%) Mockito
11 4 (0.67%) Xcode
12 3 (0.50%) Toad
13 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
14 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.17%) Gradle
General
1 266 (44.48%) Social Skills
2 165 (27.59%) Finance
3 154 (25.75%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 46 (7.69%) Banking
6 33 (5.52%) Legal
7 26 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (3.85%) Marketing
9 22 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (3.01%) Manufacturing
13 16 (2.68%) Investment Banking
13 16 (2.68%) Local Government
14 14 (2.34%) Telecoms
15 13 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (2.17%) Retail
16 9 (1.51%) Law
17 8 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (1.34%) Police
Job Titles
1 108 (18.06%) Analyst
2 67 (11.20%) Architect
3 63 (10.54%) Senior
4 62 (10.37%) Lead
5 55 (9.20%) Developer
6 47 (7.86%) Business Analyst
7 30 (5.02%) Project Manager
8 29 (4.85%) Data Analyst
8 29 (4.85%) Data Engineer
9 26 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (2.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 14 (2.34%) Python Engineer
11 13 (2.17%) Consultant
11 13 (2.17%) Programme Manager
12 12 (2.01%) Data Science Developer
12 12 (2.01%) Designer
13 11 (1.84%) Senior Developer
14 10 (1.67%) Java Developer
14 10 (1.67%) JavaScript Engineer
14 10 (1.67%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.52%) REST
2 18 (3.01%) TensorFlow
3 17 (2.84%) PyTorch
4 16 (2.68%) Kafka
5 14 (2.34%) NumPy
5 14 (2.34%) Pandas
5 14 (2.34%) scikit-learn
6 12 (2.01%) Matplotlib
6 12 (2.01%) Seaborn
7 11 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (1.67%) PySpark
9 9 (1.51%) Apache NiFi
9 9 (1.51%) Java EE
9 9 (1.51%) JDBC
10 8 (1.34%) RESTful
10 8 (1.34%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.17%) AngularJS
11 7 (1.17%) Apache Beam
11 7 (1.17%) Spark Streaming
11 7 (1.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 57 (9.53%) Management Information System
2 30 (5.02%) Algorithms
3 29 (4.85%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.84%) Credit Risk
7 11 (1.84%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 9 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.34%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.17%) CMDB
11 7 (1.17%) IoT
11 7 (1.17%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.00%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.00%) PMI
12 6 (1.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.68%) Windows
2 17 (2.84%) Linux
3 12 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.67%) Unix
5 4 (0.67%) Android
5 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (38.63%) Problem-Solving
2 162 (27.09%) Agile
3 124 (20.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 105 (17.56%) Analytics
5 92 (15.38%) Data Analysis
5 92 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 90 (15.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 87 (14.55%) Business Intelligence
8 83 (13.88%) Visualisation
9 76 (12.71%) Project Management
10 69 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 67 (11.20%) DevOps
12 65 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 64 (10.70%) Artificial Intelligence
14 56 (9.36%) Scrum
15 49 (8.19%) Change Management
16 47 (7.86%) Roadmaps
17 45 (7.53%) Business Analysis
17 45 (7.53%) Data Science
17 45 (7.53%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 97 (16.22%) Python
2 87 (14.55%) SQL
3 41 (6.86%) Java
4 23 (3.85%) R
5 19 (3.18%) JavaScript
6 16 (2.68%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (1.51%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.51%) Scala
9 5 (0.84%) VBA
10 4 (0.67%) Bash
10 4 (0.67%) Embedded C
10 4 (0.67%) Objective-C
10 4 (0.67%) Swift
11 3 (0.50%) C
11 3 (0.50%) C#
11 3 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.33%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.33%) Perl
12 2 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (16.05%) Security Cleared
2 75 (12.54%) Degree
3 61 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 35 (5.85%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.34%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.34%) PhD
7 13 (2.17%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.67%) PMP
9 9 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.51%) CISM
9 9 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.17%) CISSP
11 5 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.67%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.67%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.67%) CCNP
12 4 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.50%) CCIE
13 3 (0.50%) CRISC
13 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.36%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.01%) PMO
3 21 (3.51%) QA
4 16 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.51%) Accessibility
6 13 (2.17%) NCSC
7 10 (1.67%) GDPR
7 10 (1.67%) NIST
7 10 (1.67%) SLA
8 7 (1.17%) GRC
9 6 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.84%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.67%) P3O
12 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.33%) IFRS
13 2 (0.33%) WCAG
14 1 (0.17%) GAAP
14 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 28 (4.68%) Docker
2 16 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.84%) Postfix
4 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.67%) Firmware
5 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.17%) KVM
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.01%) Ansible
3 13 (2.17%) Terraform
4 11 (1.84%) Grafana
5 10 (1.67%) Kibana
5 10 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.34%) NetBackup
7 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.17%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (0.84%) logstash
8 5 (0.84%) Podman
9 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.50%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.33%) NetApp OnCommand
11 2 (0.33%) vMotion
11 2 (0.33%) WSUS
12 1 (0.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 67 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.35%) SAP
3 20 (3.34%) ServiceNow
4 19 (3.18%) Salesforce
5 17 (2.84%) Oracle
6 15 (2.51%) Google
7 14 (2.34%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.67%) Cisco
8 10 (1.67%) Databricks
9 9 (1.51%) Veritas
9 9 (1.51%) VMware
10 6 (1.00%) Ariba
10 6 (1.00%) Darktrace
10 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.84%) Jaspersoft
11 5 (0.84%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.67%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.67%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.67%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.67%) Splunk